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Jodi Picoult

While many of us seem to be getting book information and recommendations from book blogs and other new sources, traditional review outlets like The New York Times still carry influence and weight -- they still matter. To some people, including best-selling authors like Jennifer Weiner and Jodi Picoult, they seem to matter a lot.  Read more

Tea Party supporter at the Restoring Honor Rally

Conservative right-wing political talk show host Glenn Beck is hosting the Restoring Honor rally (renamed by Wonkette the "Lard-Baby Rally & Hate Festival") this Saturday. The rally takes place near the Lincoln Memorial -- one of the most important monuments built to honor an American president -- and is described on its web site as a "non-political event that pays tribute to America's service personnel and other upstanding citizens who embody our nation's founding principles of integrity, truth and honor."  Read more

Imam Feisal Abdul Rauf

I started this post wondering: how did this man go from being considered an exemplar of moderate Islam commissioned by the Bush and Obama administrations as a good will ambassador to Muslim nations, to being painted as a stalking horse for Hamas, Iran and global jihad with a stealth plan to impose Islamic law on the United States? While I found answers to those questions, I became more interested in understanding his ideas, and their implications for engagement between Muslims and Western societies.  Read more

Hanger

The Washington Post reports that Virginia’s Attorney General Ken Cuccinelli, an avowed opponent of women’s rights to decide for themselves if abortion is an acceptable option, “concluded that the state can impose stricter oversight over clinics that perform abortions.” He believes that they should be held to the same standards as outpatient surgical clinics,” to ensure a certain level of protection for patients." The two page article cites no st  Read more

Park 51

In case you have been on vacation from cable television and twitter for the last month or so, the summer's domestic political headlines have been dominated by a dispute over a proposed Islamic community center near the site of the World Trade Center attacks that has come to be known, variously, as Park 51, Cordoba House and, most popularly, the "Ground Zero Mosque." A Muslim organization has proposed building a 13-15 story community center on the site of a building that was damaged by debris fro  Read more

Dr. Laura Schlessinger

Radio talk show host Dr. Laura Schlessinger melted down recently on the air and just couldn't say the n-word enough times to exercise her freedom of speech. Never mind that she has enjoyed freedom of speech enough to get paid to say that lesbian and gay people are a "biological error" and that all gay men are pedophiles.  Read more

Newspaper

UPDATE: One of my co-bloggers at The Moderate Voice wrote a post in reaction to my post. You can read Marc Pascal's take here, Got Me Thinking Again About How Men and Women See.  Read more

Philip Markoff

Philip Markoff, 24, the so-called “Craigslist Killer,” was found dead in his Boston jail cell on Sunday. He had a plastic bag tied over his head and cuts on his arms. Markoff was awaiting trial for allegedly killing Julissa Brisman, a Boston masseuse he contacted over Craigslist. He was suspected of attacking another woman in Rhode Island, and committing armed robbery against another woman in Boston. As a result of the case, Craigslist modified how certain adult-oriented services could be advertised.  Read more

Jill Zimon

Then I follow up and get a nice note that the article will post this week, and I'm not going to be in it but my info was very helpful (of course it was - why else do you stay on the phone with me for an hour?) And then I read it. And you know what? My heart sank - it sank. Because it mentions my city - but not me.  Read more

Moniatrix

When I was approached by a publisher to put together a proposal for my book “The Mominatrix’s Guide to Sex,” they made one thing clear: They didn’t want it to be a collection of my online columns. And really, I understood where they were coming from; there’s no reason for someone to pay for something that they can get for free.  Read more

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